Rare lobsters. Blue coloration occurs 1 in every 2 million; the bicolor 1 in every 200 million!Submitted by Sketchables t3_119jt6l in pics
Sketchables OP t1_j9mj9po wrote
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That I don't know. I saw these at an aquarium in Cape Cod today. Apparently the bicolor is more like 1 in 50 million (the display said 200). More to research
RandyFunRuiner t1_j9mks96 wrote
Apparently it’s called gendramorphy where the chromosome development early on in embryonic development doesn’t happen correctly leading to one side having male sex organs and the other side having female. But it isn’t always the case that bicolored lobsters are gendramorphs, however it can be a sign of it.
Sketchables OP t1_j9mnbjg wrote
Very cool
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